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Ken Olin

1954 - Today

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Kenneth Edward Olin (born July 30, 1954) is an American actor, television director, and producer. As an actor, Olin is known for his role as Michael Steadman in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama nomination in 1990. Olin later began working behind the scenes, as a director and producer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Olin has received more than 1,754,157 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ken Olin is the 10,134th most popular actor (down from 9,496th in 2019), the 14,772nd most popular biography from United States (down from 13,815th in 2019) and the 4,755th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ken Olins by language

Over the past year Ken Olin has had the most page views in the with 240,096 views, followed by German (4,315), and Spanish (3,384). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbo-Croatian (50.92%), Egyptian Arabic (36.99%), and Korean (34.88%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ken Olin ranks 10,134 out of 13,578. Before him are Mike Henry, Will Pan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yasemin Allen, Kahi, and Snowy Baker. After him are Kensho Ono, Jonathan Frid, Ken Marino, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, James Maslow, and Deepti Naval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ken Olin ranks 705. Before him are Jad Fair, John Ousterhout, Julio César Jiménez, Monika Pflug, Benny Kohlberg, and Greg Ginn. After him are Mike Rounds, Herman Frazier, Ted Jensen, Mark Linn-Baker, Toninho Moura, and Mike Braun.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ken Olin ranks 14,772 out of 20,380. Before him are Nora Bayes (1880), John Starks (1965), Brian Michael Bendis (1967), Eric Boe (1964), John Garcia (1970), and Alexa Bliss (1991). After him are Ken Marino (1968), Bill Hougland (1930), Sean Hannity (1961), James Maslow (1990), Dileep Rao (1973), and Jeff Bingaman (1943).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ken Olin ranks 4,755. Before him are Jeffrey Lynn (1909), Paula Deen (1947), Gordon MacRae (1921), Larisa Oleynik (1981), Mike Henry (1965), and Will Pan (1980). After him are Ken Marino (1968), James Maslow (1990), Dileep Rao (1973), William Gargan (1905), Cathryn Damon (1930), and Bobby Lee (1971).

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Television and Movie Roles

Ghost Story
Young Sears James
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Dec 18o 19816 / 10
thirtysomething
Michael Steadman
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.
6.5 / 10
Dead by Sunset
A doctor meets a handsome, successful man and soon marries him--unaware that he cheated on his first wife, raped her, abused and tortured his children, and when his wife was about to leave him, murdered her.
7.2 / 10